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At the entrance to Empuriabrava – our “Spanish Venice”, a city on the water, in the small old town of Castell d’Empurias, there is a Butterfly Park – an amazing place that adults and children love. Here, on a small covered territory, not only butterflies of various species and sizes live, but also all kinds of tropical parrots, toucans, red ibis, iguanas, chameleons, bats; small deer live in the fenced area in the open air (at the time of our last visit there was even a kangaroo!), and turtles swim in the pond. In addition to living creatures, the park has many representatives of exotic fauna, for example, a banana tree.
In the first photo – the largest butterfly in the world – the peacock-eye atlas (scientific name is Attacus atlas).
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Handsome parrots, their mutual courtship can be watched forever!
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Incredible variety of colors. Keep in mind that if you are beautifully dressed or smells good from you – parrots can easily land on your head!
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Closest to see the butterflies can be near the place of feeding, they are happy to land for dinner on a pieces of juicy fruits.
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People with lepidopterophobia (fear of butterflies and moths) are better off not going here!
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Beauty iguana.
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A shy, but very good-natured toucan.
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Red ibis.
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This is not a blue chicken, it is a Victoria crowned pigeon (scientific name is – Goura Victoria).
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Indian muntjak is a barking deer. This is one of the oldest varieties of deer (scientists say they are over 32 million years old!), and they have the smallest number of chromosomes compared to other mammals.
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A more detailed story about Butterfly Park in Castell d’Empurias with photos can be found following the link.